Plato Lebedev. Photo: Victor Chernov/Russian Look The Velsky District Court of the Arkhangelsk Region decided to stop the proceedings at the request of the ex-head of Menatep Plato Lebedev to mitigate the punishment, Rapsei reports . In the Velsky court, this case was considered for the third time. The first two decisions of the court to mitigate the sentence to Lebedev did not suit both sides of the process and both times were sent for revision by the Arkhangelsk regional court.

Picket on the Marse Field. Photo: Tatyana Nekrasova/VKontakte In St. Petersburg on the Marse Field on Wednesday evening, a mass picket was held in defense of the city clinical hospital No. 31, according to Fontanka.ru. According to police, the action gathered about a thousand people. The organizers announced two thousand participants. The picket agreed with the authorities passed without incident.

Anatoly Marchenko and Larisa Bogoraz. Photo: Memo.ru January 23 marks the 75th anniversary of the birth of Anatoly Marchenko. Anda Sakhav, January 23, 1987: *“Live like everyone else” - these words that have become the title of books told the author throughout his life - some with care and anxiety, others with philistine condemnation or mockery, others with threat and hatred.

Maxim Luzyanin in court. Photo: Andrey Stenin/RIA "Novosti" The Moscow City Court declared a legal sentence to the businessman Maxim Luzyanin, sentenced to 4.5 years in a general regime colony for participating in the action on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012. This was reported by RAPSI. Thus, the court rejected the complaint of the defense that asked Luzyanin to appoint a conditional term. The verdict of Luzyanin was passed on November 9, 2012 by the Zamoskvoretsky court.

Maria Alekhina. Photo by Nicky Maksimyuk/Grani.ru The IK-28 prisoners in the Perm Territory continue to threaten Maria Alekhina, who was serving a punishment in this colony for punk-graben in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. 42-year-old Nonna Ivanova and her 35-year-old friend Alena Kochur in an interview with Novaya Gazeta warned that it was better not to increase to Alekhina in the detachment. “She (Alekhina. - Ed.) Is very annoying. No one is as annoyed as she,” Ivanova said.

Mikhail Fedotov. Photo from the site www.newsinfo.ru The head of the Presidential Council under the President Mikhail Fedotov sent an appeal to the Investigative Committee with a request to arrange a meeting of members of the HRC and employees of the department in order to discuss the situation with political prisoners Sergey Krivov, who has been holding a hunger strike for almost a month and a half. According to RIA Novosti, Fedotov made such a statement at a special meeting of the HRC.

Published as advertising It turns out that in Lapland you can have a great time not only in the winter, but also in the hot months of the year. Tourists will find entertainment here at any time. In summer, the beauty here is special and freedom feels completely different. In order to merge with nature as much as possible, many people prefer to lead a tent lifestyle or move around in vans - mobile homes.

Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg adopted in the first reading the bill of Governor Georgy Poltavchenko, which prohibits the holding of shares on Nevsky Prospekt, as well as on Palace and Isaac's squares, Interfax reports. In support of the document, 28 deputies voted, against - 19. The Communist Party, "Fair Russia" and the LDPR opposed the law.

State Duma. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The State Duma adopted in the first reading a law that allows the subjects of the Federation to abandon direct governor's elections. According to RIA Novosti, the bill was supported by 403 deputies, 10 were against. According to the new rules, the subjects of the Federation themselves determine the procedure for the election of the head of the region - by direct voting of the population or the decision of the regional parliament.

Sergey Lavrov. Photo from the site www.ilyapitalev.ru Russia intends to seek several books from the Schneerson library, transferred for a while, the American Hasidam. According to RIA Novosti, such a statement made at a press conference the Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. "The Hasids, by the way, received several books from this library from this library for temporary use for a couple of months even more than 10 years ago. But they have not yet been returned.

Andrey Kibitov. Photo: lenizdat.ru The St. Petersburg City Hospital No. 31 will not be re-profiled and will remain subordinate to the city, said Andrei Kibitov, spokeswoman for the Governor of the Northern Capital of the Northern Capital Governor of the Northern capital, on Twitter. "The position of the Governor of St. Petersburg at the 31st hospital was extremely concrete - the hospital was, is and will be a city hospital," Kibitov wrote.

Arkady Dvorkovich. Photo by RIA '' News '' The stop of economic reforms in Russia is due to a crisis, and not a poor state administration, said Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich in Davos. According to RIA Novosti, he gave such an explanation in an interview with Davos Today.

Alexey Navalny. Photo by V. Maximyuk/Grani.ru Alexey Navalny begins the campaign against the use of Latin on corruption purposes. “There is such an effective corruption mechanism that Rospil often encounters - the use of Latin in placing the state order,” he wrote on his blog. Thanks to such a trick, only contractors notified by officials can find an ad on the state order website.

Homeless dog. Photos of faces The police will do everything to suppress the rally planned shares of doghunters, RIA Novosti reports citing the representative of the press service of the capital's head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Earlier, information appeared on the Internet that in the evening of January 25, a large -scale raid on homeless dogs will be held in Moscow. Doghanganters are going to pay special attention to sleeping areas of the city.

Alexey Navalny. Photo by V. Maximyuk/Grani.ru The European Court of Human Rights accepted the complaint of Alexei Navalny about the detention and the subsequent fine for participating in the "festivities" in May 2012, RAPSI reports citing lawyer Konstantin Terekhov. In his complaint, Navalny indicates that he considers the incident to a violation of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly, which is guaranteed by the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.